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From: bartana@uni.Colorado.EDU (Ido Bar-tana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Buying a Mouse: Serial or Bus?
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Date: 17 Jun 91 19:11:11 GMT
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In article <0094A2A8.5A473A80@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU>, sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>|In article <13487@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu (Timothy Newsham) writes:
>|>I'm going to buy a mouse for my system, and price is the determining
>|>factor in which mouse I buy.
>|>
>|>Of course, the cheaper mice are the serial mice.
>|>
>|>Besides the obvious disadvantage of the mouse occupying a serial port,
>|>are there any other disadvantages of serial mice versus bus mice?
>|>There must be a reason why people are still buying bus mice when
>|>they're soooo expensive compared to $30 serial mice.
>
>You're getting two things mixed up: interface and quality.  Yes, serial mice
>are the cheaper mice.  But cheap serial mice are NOT the same expensive serial
>mice.  There are two distinct types of mice: cheap mice and expensive mice.
>Cheap mice are all serial interface and 200 dpi resolution.  Expensive mice
>are 320-400dpi and have either serial or bus mice.
>
>now to answer the original question, the bus mouse leaves a com port open,
>and that is its primary advantage.  I like it because it's a "cleaner" 
>interface to the system and lets me keep a hand scanner and modem attached
>at all times.
>
>Brian
>/*
>Brian Hook -- MS-DOS Programmer for Contract
>-------------------------------------------

What do you mean by 'cleaner'. As for the scanner and modem, I have all three (scanner, modem mouse) living happily side by side, not disturbing each other.